City Academy
Secondary · Birmingham · B15 2EF
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 10 February 2026 · report published 19 April 2026
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
554 pupils · 74% of 750 capacity
- School type
- Free schools
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 57% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 49.9% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 0.5% of pupils
- Website
- http://www.corecity.academy
- URN
- 148187
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.56 first-choice applications per place61 places offered · 34 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
150 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
80% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% moved to another state school · 12% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 10 February 2026: Needs attention
- 12 March 2025: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 7 March 2023: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.